4101:6-1-14
Wool fillers.

(1)
"Wool felt" means the product obtained
when one or more of the wool products defined under paragraphs (A)(2), (A)(3),
and (A)(4) of this rule has been carded in layers or sheets by a garnett or
felting machine. The term blended wool felt" may be used when the one type of
material, as specified in this paragraph, is used.

(2)
"wool" and/or "virgin wool" means the
fleece of the sheep or lamb, which has been scoured, or scoured and carbonized.
It shall not be the by-product of any manufacturing process; nor shall it have
sustained prior use. It shall be free from kemp and vegetable matter.

(3)
Optional for those
manufacturers who want to use, and get credit for using a finer quality of
wool. "choice wool" and/or "choice virgin wool" means wool and/or virgin wool,
as defined in paragraph (A)(2) of this rule, that is "one-fourth blood" (48's)
or finer in grade, according to the United States standards for grades of wool,
and shall be natural or bleached white in color. The fibers shall be reasonably
uniform in length, viz., they shall contain no admixture of short wool fibers.
The term "choice wool" and/or "choice virgin wool" may not be used in
describing component parts of wool blends or mixtures.

(4)
"Wool by-products" means the by-products
removed from the various machine operations necessary in the manufacture of
wool yarn up to but not including the process of spinning, and shall include
the following materials commonly known in wool mill terms as (A) "noils," and
(B) "fulling flocks." Either the blanket term "wool-by-products" or the
individual terms "wool noils," etc., may be used on the law label.

(5)
"Wool waste" means all other by-products
and waste from any manufacturing process employing only new wool fibers and
includes wool pills and shank and tag wools.

(1)
Wool blends or mixtures: When
two or more of the materials listed under paragraph (A) of this rule are used
in a product, they shall be described on the label as required under paragraph
(A) of this rule in order of their predominance.

(2)
Tolerance: Material which contain not
less than ninety-five per cent wool shall be considered wool.